Famine Foods: Thoughts from a Caatinga Research Experience

Abstract

Introduction 2 What Are "Famine Foods"? 3 What Conditions Favor the Use of Emergency Foods in the Caatinga? 4 Famine Foods of the Caatinga 4.1 Anacardiaceae 4.2 Apocynaceae 4.3 Araceae 4.4 Arecaceae 4.5 Bromeliaceae 4.6 Cactaceae 4.7 Dioscoreaceae 4.8 Euphorbiaceae 4.9 Fabaceae 4.10 Menispermaceae 5 Sociocultural Aspects of the Use of "Famine Foods": A Focus on Food Taboos 6 Final Considerations References V. T. do Nascimento () Universidade do Estado da Bahia -UNEB, BR 242, s/n. Loteamento Flamengo.

A Comparative Photographic Review on Higher Plants and Macro-Fungi: A Soil Restoration for Sustainable Production of Food and Energy

“…Many studies on unconventional foods derived from plants or mushrooms have been published in different locations all over the world for plants [102][103][104] or mushrooms [105,106]. Increasing attention has been noticed to this group of underutilized plants, which have many different terms such as unconventional vegetables or traditional vegetables, alternative food plants, famine foods, wild edible plants, and plants for the future [103,107]. Therefore, there is an urgent need for unconven-tional medicinal/food plants with consideration of their potential under the initiative of "from flask to patient" and "from field to fork" [108].…”